WINK 281- The Poster/Advert

Digipak Draft #2

Disc Tray/Back of Album-


The disc tray of the album is simply the Wink 182 logo in the place of where the CD would be. However it is at a canted angle and slightly obscures the spine of the album giving the whole tray design a lazy and teenage feel, much like how text on magazines obscure the images on the front cover. The logo design is also made to look like it has been spray painted on to the album, as the spray painted walls are featured on many punk albums we felt it was symbolic and we included it.

The back of the CD is a performance picture featuring the band at the same location as the music video. Effectively this shot will be a still shot of the crowd scenes from the music video with the song titles, record label and barcode obstructing the image. I am going to use my SLR camera, and set the exposure up a bit so that the crowd is blurred slightly giving the impression that everyone is going mental for the band.

In researching the Digipaks of artists like Blink 182, Sum 41, and the Sex Pistols, I noted that they all share a patriotic theme, usually adopting the colours of red white and blue, and incorporating their respective flags into their albums. With that in mind my partner and I decided to focus on a patriotic theme for ours, we decided that a simple front cover would represent the lazy side of punk, along with the Union Jack background would represent the patriotic side of Punk.

The back of the case also adopts the red white and blue colour theme, but there is no Union Jack. Instead there is a form of collage showing band life. The pictures are obscuring one and another to give the lazy, unprofessional, punk look.

Advert Deconstructions

Sum 41 Underclass Hero deconstruction-



This poster features Deryck Whibley being a stereotypical punk. He is wearing an entirely black outfit, standing in front of a wall of graffiti, engaging in that most frowned on of punk activities- Spitting. This symbolises the punk attitude of "screw the establishment, lets spit on the floor and write graffiti". The fire extinguisher behind Deryck Whibley symbolises the hero side of the album. Deryck is standing in front of graffiti, spitting, (Which is the underclass bit) yet the fire extinguisher symbolises his hero side and that even punk rockers can help society.

The colour palette of this poster is very typical of punk and shares similarities with the Sex Pistols adverts. The black and white image and 'Sex Pistol' pink could mean that the world is boring and monotonous but as the band name is in pink it could mean that punk is the "light" in the dark tyrannical world.